Peg-cutter.



No. 692,220. Patented Ian. 28, I902 E. S. WAHMAN &. H. A. REHBERG. PEG CUTTER.

(Application filed Feb. 16, 1900.)

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UNTTh STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST S. WAHMAN AND HENRY A. REHBERG, OF BELOIT, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORS TO HARVEY ED\VARD NICHOLS, ORION D. N. INMAN, AND CLARENCE W. INMAN, OF BELOIT, \VISOONSIN.

.PEG-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,220, dated. January 28, 1902. Application filed February 16, 1900. Serial No, 5,514. (to model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- curved jaw when the jaws are closed. All of 50 Be it known that we, ERNEST S. WAHMAN this construction will be hereinafter more speand HENRY A. REHBERG, citizens of the cifically described and then particularly United States of America, residing at Beloit, pointed out in the appended claim, and in in the county of Rock and State of VViscondescribing the invention in detail reference sin, have invented certain new and useful Imwill be had to the accompanying drawings, 55 provements in Nippers, of which the followforming a part of this specification, wherein ing is a specification, reference being had like numerals of reference will be employed therein to the accompanying drawings. to designate similar parts throughout the sev- IO This invention relates to certain new and eral views of the drawings, and in which useful improvements in nippers, and relates Figure 1 isa side view of our improved nip- 60 more specifically to that class of nippers pers, showinga part of a shoe in longitudinal which are employed for removing or cutting section, with the nippers in position for outnails or pegs in the insoles of shoes and the ting a nail or peg in the insole thereof. Fig.

like. 2 is a top plan view of our improved nippers The object of the invention is to construct when in the closed position. Fig. 3 is a de- 65 an improved nippers of this class by means tail perspective view of the jaws and a part of which the nail or peg may be cut off close of the handles, the latter being separated and to or below the surface of the insole; furpivot removed to clearly illustrate the conthermore, to so construct the nippers that struction at point of pivot. Fig. tisadetail they may be employed for grasping the nail side View of the jaws when in the closed po- 70 or peg in such a manner that the same may sition with the handles broken away. be dragged forward into position for cutting In the construction of our improved nippers the same more advantageously, or, if desired, the same are preferably made from the best to entirely remove such nail or peg from the tempered steel, in order that a knife-edge of shoe or the like. sufficient hardness and strength may be ob- 75 A further object of the invention is to contained on the jaws for use in cutting iron, struct nippers of this class with jaws of essteel, or other metallic nails. pecial form, one being practically straight, so The nippers consist of two members, which that it may be forced under pressureinto the maybe termed handlesor levers,as they insole and will rest against the nail at a point act in the capacity of both such elements. 80 considerably below the protruding tipthereof, Referring to the drawings, we will first deand the other of which jaws is curved in such scribe what we will term the upper handle a manner that when closed against the nail or lever 1, which is essentially a flat bar of or peg its knife-edge will in describing the steel or other suitable metal and is preferably arc of its circle close toward and pass under given the curvature as shown for convenience 8 5 the knife-edge of the straight jaw to effect a of operation in the interior of a shoe or the clean sharp cut of the nail or peg. like. We preferably provide this upper 1e- Briefly described, therefore, our invention ver on its outer end with a handle 2, though comprises two pivoted handles curved with such handle may be dispensed with, if derespect to each other, that the desired cutting sired. Near its inner end this upper lever or 90 effect of the jaws maybe obtained, these hanhandle is shouldered, as at 3, and has the dles being pivoted and adapted to close one curved face a on its end, terminating in the against the other, with the one handle conknife-edge 5. The width of the curved face structed withapraoticallystraight knife-edge 4 is equal to the combined width of the two and the other with a curved knife-edge, the members at the point where theyare pivoted 5 knife-edge of the straight jaw being adapted together, and to permit of a wide opening or to pass beyond the plane of the knife-edge on separating of the jaws the upper edge of the the curved jaw and lie slightly within such lever or member 1 is inclined, as at 6, so that such member may not lock against the curved jaw of the other member when the jaws are being opened or separated. (See Fig. 1.) The other member 7 we will term as the lower lever or handle and has a curve approximately the same as that of the member 1 or upper lever, and forconvenience in operating the tool is slightly less in length than the combined length of the upper lever and its handle 2. This lower lever 7 likewise consists of a flat bar throughout that portion of the same which closes fiat against the member or upper lever vl when the jaws are closed; but its outer or gripping end is preferably flattened at right angles to the part of the lever which engages the upper lever 1, so as to form a convenient grip for the hand of the operator. At its in- .ner end this lower member terminates in a curved jaw 8, having a knife-edge 9, adapted when the jaws are closed to lie slightly below the plane of the knife-edge 5, as shown in Fig. at of the drawings, so that these knifeedges when the jaws are closing will effectuallycut nails orlhe like. The width of this curved jaw is the same as that of the straight jaw or equal to that of the upper and lower lever at the pivotal point thereof, the curved jaw having a lip or lug 10, which lies over the incline 6, the edge of such lip or lug being at diflerentinclines, as at 11 and 12, respectively, so as to permit the extreme opening of the jaws. The free inner end of this lever 7 is shouldered, as at 14, to conform to the shoulder 3 of the upper lever. Thelevers are both provided, close to the jaws, with apertures 15, adapted to register, and in which is placed the pivotal pin or screw 16, upon which the levers operate and by which they are held together.

We will now describe the operation, and in practice have found that a convenient manner of using the tool is to hold the shoe or other article in the left hand, with the nippers placed inside the shoe, the flat surface of the lower jaw against the insole and the knife-edge against the tip of the nail or peg to be removed, with the handle 2 against the breast of the operator. The lower jaw, with the knife-edge 5, is pressed against the insole at the nail or peg to be cut off at such an angle as the operator desires, as illustrated at 17, Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the upperjaw of the nippers is then pressed downward with the right hand, cutting off the tip of the nail or peg at the depth desired in the insole.

WVe desire to call particular attention to the fact (for illustration see Fig. 4) that the upper or curved jaw does not meet the lower jaw, but cuts by and under it, and when closed can be used for grasping or hooking onto the nail or peg and pulling forward the tips of the same into position for cutting any nails or pegs bent forward or away from the operator.

It will be observed that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of our invention.

Having thus fully described'our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, a pair of curved levers, a handle secured to the extremity of one of said levers, the other of said levers having its extremity flattened, the other end of each of said levers having an enlarged portion forminga shoulder, said enlarged ends being of a width equal to the combined thicknesses of said levers, the said shoulders each having an inclined face, one of said faces being of less incline than the other, a pivotal connection between said levers slightly to the rear of said shoulders, curved jaws made integral with said shoulders and of the same width as the. said shoulders, oppositely-disposed curved inner faces on said jaws, one of said curved faces being of greater curvature than the other and adapted to have its edge extend beyond said lesser curved jaw when the device is closed, whereby the jaw of lesser curvature may engage the nail at a point approximately in alinement with theinsole and the otherengage the nail at a point below the surface of saidinsole, when the lever connected to said firstnamed jaw is pressed upward cutting the nail below the surface of said insole, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST S. WAHMAN. HENRY A. REHBERG. Witnesses:

JONAS INMAN, O. D. INMAN. 

